Sled brake and guide.



' s. SEVERSON. SLED BRAKE AND GUIDE.

APPLIOATION FILED JUNE 26, 1909. RENEWED JAN. 31, 1911.

Patented Mar. 21, 1911.

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STEVEN SEVERSON, OF REPUBLIC, WASHINGTON.

SLED BRAKE AND GUIDE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed .Tune 25, 1909, Serial No. 504,288.

Patented Mar. 21, 1911.

Renewed January 31, 1911. Serial No. 605,812.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, STEVEN SnvnnsoN, a citizen of the United States,residing at Republic, county of Ferry, and State of Washington, haveinvented certain new and useful Improvements in Sled Brakes and Guides,of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to sled brakes and guides.

The object of the present invention is the provision of a sled brake andguide of novel construction adapting it for ready attachment to therunner of any sled in convenient position for manipulation by the personbeing carried by the sled so as to serve as a brake or as a guide, butwhich is normally adapted to lie alongside the sled runner and to beadapted for automatic return to such normal position after use.

The invention is set forth fully hereinafter and the novel features arerecited in the appended claims.

In the accompanying drawings:Figure 1 is a side view, full lines showingthe brake in normal position and dotted lines showing it in depressedposition; and Fig. 2, a plan view, full lines showing the brake innormal position and dotted lines in position for guiding the sled.

The runner of an ordinary sled is shown at 1, to the forward part ofwhich, at any desired height, the sled brake and guide is connected by ahead 2 which is preferably secured by a bolt 3 so as to be incapable ofturning.

Pivotally secured in kerfs 4: in the head 2 by virtue of the employmentof a bolt 5, are the leaf-springs 6 and 7 by which the brakearm 8 isconnected to the head, said brakearm and a hand-piece 9 being secured bybolts 10 to the leaf-springs 6 and 7 and be ing mutually braced by across-piece 11 through which passes a bolt 12 which holds the brake-shoe13 in a seat 14 in the arm 8.

A coil spring 15, which is secured to one of the bolts 10 and to therunner at 16, constitutes a means for returning the brake and guide tothe side of the runner and for normally keeping it in that position, theleafsprings 6 and 7 retaining the device in normal horizontal positionwith the shoe 13 disposed somewhat above the surface of the ground.

On depressing the hand-piece 9 to a suitable extent, the shoe 13 isbrought into contact with the ground and can be forced as deep asdesired to regulate the braking action. By virtue of the pivotalconnection between the leaf-springs 6 and 7 and the bolt 5, the brakeand guide may be swung outwardly to any desired extent and used as aguide to control the movements of the sled, so that the device iscapable of use at the same time both as a brake and as a guide.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new and desire tosecure by Letters Patent, is

1. In a combined sled brake and guide, the combination with the sled, ofa combined brake and guide pivoted for lateral movement in relation tothe sled, and a spring for retracting said combined brake and guidelaterally toward the sled.

'2. In a combined sled brake and guide, the combination with the sledrunner, of a combined brake and guide disposed alongside the runner andmovably connected at its forward part to said runner, its rear partbeing free to be swung outwardly or inwardly and upwardly or downwardlyin relation to the runner.

8. In a combined sled brake and guide, the combination with the sledrunner, of a combined brake and guide disposed alongside the runner andmovably connected at its forward part to said runner, its rear partbeing free to be swung outwardly or in.- wardly and upwardly ordownwardly in relation to the runner, and spring means for retractingsaid brake and guide laterally and upwardly.

1. In a combined sled brake and guide, the combination with the sled, ofa combined brake and guide supported from the sled by a leaf-spring forup and down movement and pivoted for lateral movement, and a spring forlaterally retracting the combined brake and guide.

In testimony whereof, I hereunto afiix my signature in presence of twowitnesses.

STEVEN SEVERSON.

Vitnesses:

J AY N. WHITE, JOHN STANLEY.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressingthe Commissioner of Patents, Washington, D. G.

